Longitudinal Social Impacts of HRI over Long-Term Deployments

ABSTRACTThe Longitudinal Social Impacts of HRI over Long-Term Deployments Workshop seeks to bring together researchers working on all aspects of thoroughly understanding such deployments. This includes researchers working in contributing areas, such as longitudinal studies of human-robot interaction, long-term autonomy, and real-world reployments. This workshop seeks to grow the study of how real-world, deployed robot systems impact the people who interact with them and the social structure of the places that they inhabit. Historically, research in this area has been high-impact. As the world sees robots begin to inhabit places designed for people - delivery robots on city streets, and robots with jobs in airports, shopping malls, and in the home - we expect the importance of understanding these impacts to grow.